¹ tn Heb “Woe to those who plan sin.” The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe”; “ah”) was a cry used in mourning the dead.

² tn Heb “those who do evil upon their beds.”

³ tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”

⁴ tn Heb “then they will cry out to the Lord.” The words “Someday these sinners” have been supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ sn The prophet Micah speaks here and contrasts himself with the mercenaries just denounced by the Lord in the preceding verses.

⁶ tn Heb “am full of power, the Spirit of the Lord, and justice and strength.” The appositional phrase “the Spirit of the Lord” explains the source of the prophet’s power. The phrase “justice and strength” is understood here as a hendiadys, referring to the prophet’s strong sense of justice.

⁷ tn Heb “to declare to Jacob his rebellion and to Israel his sin.” The words “this enables me” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁸ tn Heb “woe to me!” In light of the image that follows, perhaps one could translate, “I am disappointed.”

⁹ tn Or “for.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “I am like the gathering of the summer fruit, like the gleanings of the harvest.” Micah is not comparing himself to the harvested fruit. There is an ellipsis here, as the second half of the verse makes clear. The idea is, “I am like [one at the time] the summer fruit is gathered and the grapes are harvested.”

¹¹ tn Heb “my appetite craves.”

¹² tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

¹³ tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

¹⁵ sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.